Upon entering the Path of Self-awareness, one of our first concerns is to learn to act and behave as adults. When this has been understood and achieved, a strange thing happens. The more we try to keep our adult attitude, the more outside causes come to trigger our child part once again. The truth, of course, is different. Facts are neither responsible for this nor planned to lead us to an emotional regression. The truth is that our child part tends to keep near the parent and this is what leads us to get involved in such situations. Yet, we are expected to remain adults if we still wish to remain on the Spiritual Path. However, this adherence to our adult part makes our child part experience rejection and frustration and, thus, pain. Our child part is unaware of the fact that it is us who don’t let it follow its intended course, namely the desperate pursuit of the parent. So, when we deprive it of that, it feels someone is rejecting it and this is painful. Still, this has to be done for the sake of our spiritual course. After all, if we leave our child part to follow the course it desires, the result will be unavoidable rejection or frustration, since this situation has been chosen by the child part itself in order to repeat that familiar psychic parental introjection. If, however, we prevent it from moving towards that direction, it will feel pain on the one hand, but, on the other, our (adult + Spiritual) self will have made another step towards its manifestation. It is, therefore, important to make room for the pain caused by the adult rejection of our child drive because it is this Pain which proves that we are walking as we should on our Spiritual Path. We should be very careful about what adult rejection/frustration means. An adult attitude never entails a rejection of any one of our parts. It always entails consciousness, acceptance and understanding, despite the fact that the child part is not allowed to take the reins of our life.